Sentence examples for low mate from inspiring English sources

For instance, some evolutionary psychologists claim that rape is an adaptation that enables men of low mate value to obtain access to sexual partners, whereas others in the field disagree, claiming that rape is a byproduct of a general aggressive male tendency towards women naturally, these competing evolutionary hypotheses can be tested against each other.

Finally, boys and girls who perceived themselves as having a high mate value showed more dating desire toward an attractive potential partner compared to adolescents who perceived themselves as having a low mate value.

First, as proposed since Darwin (1862, 1877), selfing can be an adaptive, reproductive assurance strategy in response to low mate and/or pollinator availability (e.g. as a consequence of habitat fragmentation) and may result in increased colonizing ability (Hagerup, 1952; Jain, 1976; Lloyd, 1979; Williamson, 1984; Catling, 1990; Eckert et al., 2010; but see also Busch et al., 2011).

It is unclear if men's cognitive performance would decrease in such an uncertain situation, as people generally only expend cognitive resources if they find doing so is worthwhile (Baumeister, DeWall, Ciarocco, & Twenge, 2005; Wan & Sternthal, 2008), and men do not readily engage in impression management if a woman has low mate value (Wilson & Daly, 2004).

The fact that male:female sex ratios in field populations of O. davisae are about 1∶10 combined with the low mating capacity of males (on average 5 life-time matings per male in a predator-free environment) indeed suggests that a large fraction of the females in a population will never be mated and that fertilization limitation is severe, as suggested earlier [35].

Males have a low mating capacity.

This senescence is independent of previous mating history since males living in celibacy for 5 10 days after maturation had similarly low mating rates when eventually offered females (Fig. 3).

We report here extremely low mating success of female bagworms in undisturbed, natural populations toward the edge of the distribution range, including the occurrence of total mating failure (0% mated female) at some sites.

We suggest that the capability of virgin females to remain fertile even at high age may be interpreted as an adaptation to fertilization limitation owing to low male encounter rates during long periods of the year and/or low mating capability of the males.

Demographic Allee effects, defined as positive impacts of density on the total fitness of individuals (e.g., high rate of mortality and low mating success in sparse populations), have been hypothesized to strongly influence population dynamics and to help constrain geographic range boundaries [8], [11], [12].

Resistance spread at a very low mating rate as assessed in vitro.